A wider horizon

Sunset 1 (2013, 3.8), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


The eyes experience less stress when they can
look upon a wider horizon. 

R. D. Chin

Earth

Tree, SMC, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

We won't save a place we don't love;

we can't love a place we don't know;

and we can't know a place we haven't learned.

Ched Myers

Right Relationships

Conversation (2013, 3.5), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

God is found in right relationships,

not right ideas.

Barbara Brown Taylor, 

Leaving Church

Limits

KRUC Cross 2 (2013, 3.4), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. 

Michael Jordan

Truth

Leaf on ice 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

One word of truth outweighs the world.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Where we are

Direction in the snow, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     The first step toward the capacity for hope is 
     the recognition of where we are. 
     If we refuse to recognize where we are, 
     then everything we do is futile. 

        Chris Hedges

Broken Open

Light (2013, 2.14), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

God breaks the heart again and again and

again until it stays open. 

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Clarity

Jacqueline Treloar 2, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Don’t confuse honours with achievement.

Zadie Smith

Presence

Salt 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Most precious gift you can give

is your true presence.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Solitude

Lamp (2013, 2.22), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Solitude is a crucial ingredient to creativity.

Susan Cain

Stop

Mountain 12, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Stop talking, stop thinking,
and there is nothing you will not understand.

Seng-Ts'an

My life

Footprint 9, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. 

Love tells me I am everything. 

And between the two 

my life flows. 

Nisargadatta Maharaj

Joy

Baptismal Font 11, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

For the raindrop,

joy is entering the river.

Ghalib

Knowledge

Flower Pot, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Knowledge that takes you not beyond yourself

is far worse than ignorance.

Arabic Proverb

Art

Bicycle Rack 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art is not what you see.

But what you make others see.

Edward Degas

Art

Containers 3, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Art makes it hard to ignore truth.

Anne Lamott,

Help, Thanks, Wow

Strength

Life 1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Our strength will continue 

if we allow ourselves the courage 

to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable. 

Melody Beattie

More to do with beauty

Candles 4 (2012,1.29), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


     but our lives will only ever always
     continue to be
     a balancing act
     that has less to do with pain
     and more to do with beauty.

        Shane Koyczan, To This Day

Wilderness

Snow Day 3 (2013, 2.16), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

No wilderness, no revelation.

Susan Cain

Your Being

Tree 1 (2013, 2.23), a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

The only thing you really transmit

to another person is your Being. 

Ram Dass,

Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad Gita